17 Bible Verses about Distinguishing

And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be really my son Esau or not.

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son's vest or not.

And see, if it go up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, it is he who has done us this great evil; if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that touched us; it was a chance that happened to us.

And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the E'phraimites. And when any of the fugitives of E'phraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an E'phraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?

By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.

And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these deeds, for they are not out of my own heart: if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me; but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

which, when it has been filled, having drawn up on the shore and sat down, they gathered the good into vessels and cast the worthless out.

for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.

By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.